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The Language of Instruction: Compensating for Challenge in Lectures
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Medimorec, Srdan; Pavlik, Philip I., Jr.; Olney, Andrew; Graesser, Arthur C.; Risko, Evan F. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2015
Recent studies have used Coh-Metrix, an automated text analyzer, to assess differences in language characteristics across different genres and academic disciplines (Graesser, McNamara, & Kulikowich, 2011; McNamara, Graesser, McCarthy, & Cai, 2014). Coh-Metrix analyzes text on many constructs at different levels, including Word Concreteness…
Descriptors: Language of Instruction, Lecture Method, Oral Language, Language Usage